Applied Physics

Today, Stretchable Optoelectronics- Tomorrow, Artificial Retina

By combining stretchable optoelectronics and biologically inspired design, scientists have created a remarkable imaging device, with a layout based on the human eye. As reported in the Aug. 7 issue of the journal Nature, researchers at the University of Il ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 6 2008 - 6:15pm

History Of Internal Combustion Engine Design

What are the forces that drive science and technology? How do we get from Wilbur and Orville Wright’s day where they could tinker their way to a major engineering breakthrough with little more than spruce frames, canvas and a hand built engine.... what... ...

Article - Jim Myres - Aug 6 2008 - 9:33pm

Is The Third Law Of Thermodynamics More Of A Guideline?

The Third Law of Thermodynamics states that as the temperature of a pure substance moves toward absolute zero (the mathematically lowest temperature possible) its entropy, or the disorderly behavior of its molecules, also approaches zero. The molecules sh ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 7 2008 - 1:10pm

Invisibility Cloak Gets A Nanomaterial Boost

Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have for the first time engineered 3-D materials that can reverse the natural direction of visible and near-infrared light, a development that could help form the basis for higher resolution optical ima ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 11 2008 - 9:57am

Women In Science: Professor Meg Urry On Why There Are So Few Women In Physics

ScientificBlogger Matthew Brown had the chance to sit down with Professor Meg Urry, the Israel Munson Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Yale University. She gives readers a special understanding of the issues affecting women in science; she offers her ...

Article - Matthew Brown - Oct 8 2008 - 11:41pm

Healing Effects Of Massage Get Some Scientific Proof

Researchers testing the long-held theory that therapeutic massage can speed recovery after a sports injury have found early scientific evidence of the healing effects of massage. The scientists have determined that immediate cyclic compression of muscles a ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 12 2008 - 4:35pm

Interview: Professor Otto Rössler Takes On The LHC

On the vast CERN landscape outside Geneva, there’s only one figure in science tilting at the LHC windmill, Dr Otto E Rössler(Roessler). An aged veteran with some 300 research papers under his belt, sometimes called the father of Chaos theory, he looks the ...

Blog Post - Alan Gillis - Apr 10 2012 - 7:31pm

Rise Of The Bio-Brained Robots

A multidisciplinary team at the University of Reading has developed a robot which is controlled by a biological brain formed from cultured neurons. This cutting edge research is the first step to examine how memories manifest themselves in the brain, and h ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 13 2008 - 4:12pm

Constructal Theory- The Designedness Of 'Flow' In Nature

What do a tree and the Eiffel Tower have in common? According to a Duke University engineer, both are optimized for 'flow.' In the case of trees, the flow is of water from the ground throughout the trunk, branches and leaves, and into the air. Th ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 14 2008 - 9:25am

Self-Assembling Block Copolymers Could Boost Data Storage

As lithographic materials and strategies come close to fundamental technical limits, increase performance and size could become prohibitively expensive. Further advances will require a new approach that is both commercially viable and capable of meeting th ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 14 2008 - 1:44pm